BEN Time Zone +1 Benin (Formerly known as Dahomey) Porto-Novo – also known as Hogbonu and Ajashe
Metric System Adoption: 1884-91
International System Adoption: 1960
United Nations Member: 20 Sep 1960
Member of ECOWAS; Currency: West African CFA Franc (Fr) XOF

MDG Time Zone +3 Madagasikara (Madagascar; formerly known as Malagasy) Antananarivo
Metric System Legal Adoption: 1897 *
United Nations Member: 20 Sep 1960
* The monarchy collapsed in 1897 when the island was absorbed into the French Colonial Empire, from which the island gained independence in 1960.

80 GNQ Equatorial Guinea

GNQ Time Zone +1 Guinea Ecuatorial (Equatorial Guinea) Malabo
Metric System Adoption: 1900 * Treaty of Paris
United Nations Member: 12 Nov 1968
Member of CEMAC; Currency: Central African CFA Franc (Fr) XAF
* The Treaty of Paris signed 27 Jun 1900 between the Kingdom of Spain and the French Republic relieves Río Muni of all conflicting claims. Spain is left with 26,000 km2 out of the 300,000 stretching east to the Ubangi River, which they had initially claimed.

ETH Time Zone +3 Ityopya (Ethiopia; formerly known as Abyssinia) Addis Ababa / Addis Abeba
International System Adoption: 1963
United Nations Member: 13 Nov 1945 *
* Ethiopia is the only African nation to defeat European colonial ambition and retain sovereignty. Many African nations adopt these flag colors. Ethiopia is the first independent African member of the League of Nations and the United Nations.